"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
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Rod Speed pretended :

"S Viemeister" wrote in message
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On 6/7/2012 11:22 PM, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:29:57 +0000 (UTC), Jules Richardson
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:03:50 -0700, jgharston wrote:
And I've always wondered how valid this "men never went in the
kitchen"
thing was.

The kitchen is for cleaning engine parts... everyone knows that!

It's odd the number of blokes who would happily cook for themselves
and learned to sew, clean, mend kit, etc, in the forces, yet were
utterly handless when it came to doing it home. Some of that, of
course was role-playing, and territory and many women of that
generation resented the hubbie's presence in the kitchen.
Otoh, the number of males nowadays who know how to sew on a button or
mend a tear is vanishingly small. Fs, it's hardly rocket science.

The number of _women_ who know how to sew on a button is vanishingly
small, too.

I find that very hard to believe. They wouldn't be available to buy if
that was true.

You would be a believer if you lived here lol

Nope. Even you must have noticed that loose buttons are available to buy
there.